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Reg Haynes

My memories of serving with the 215 Troop Carrying Company 1940 -46

One day we were taken in lorries to Edinburgh, put on a train to Greenock on the Clyde, and then taken...

Italy, Occupation Duties near the Yugoslav Border

The Italian partisans had taken the area including Trieste but Tito's mob of communist had also...

"Enemies of Yesterday - Friends of Today".

It was the dying wish of corporal John Henry Burdess better known to his friends as Jack who served in the...

My Life in the Army

We left in the back of lorries as we left the Three Ouster Aircraft and the 25lb guns to the Dutch...

My wartime experiences. Chapter 2 - Norway & Capture (part 2)

During the day we came upon a Cpl. of the Foresters and he gave us a Luger pistol with a full magazine,...

The Strathallan- Part 30: My Voyage on the Strathallan Part Three

Offenders were summarily convicted for various offences eg hanging from a yard-arm and pretending was a...

A lieutenant with two pips

On the way into Burma, all the officers had left their big boxes of kit — you couldn't carry...

Army: King's Own Royal Regiment, Lancaster - 2nd Battalion

The battalion was involved in the operation on 21st November 1941 which is known as the 'Tobruk...

An Account Of Life In The ATS (Part Two)

Finally we reached Calcutta, came down on the Hooghli, were transferred ashore and conveyed to the railway...

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force

This included silverware and a beautiful Lonsdale belt with a miniature portrait of Lord Lonsdale on the...

SPECIFIC WAR MEMORIES OF THE 2ND CHINDITS EXPEDITION - PART 3

Many of the valleys were called ‘ambush valley’ and we relied on the local Nagas to inform us...

Travels Of An Engineer

We'd only been at Longmoor a month when along with 11 others from various other Docks Operating...

Buck's War

Donald Maurice Brener, always "Donny" to his mother, was born in Shawano, Wisconsin USA near the...

StanEllis4

I was a soldier in the Army firstly in the UK, then in North Africa, and finally in Italy and Greece. This...

Memories of a Soldier (Cont.)

An officer stood at the doorway of a hotel and beckoned us in, "there's room in the cellar", he...

Extracts from ‘Recollections of an NCO’

Any road, we staggered out on deck and all these chaps came out on deck and we clutched our way to the...

My War by James Murray 7

We made a quick move from Padua to a village a dozen miles from Trieste and it was actually here on 8th/...

Remembrance

As I crossed behind the Water Bowser on the way to the Commanding Officer's office I saw four naked...

Travels Of An Engineer

We'd only been at Longmoor a month when along with 11 others from various other Docks Operating...

Dearest Mum and Dad - a letter from Burma

I/c 16012 Mobile Cinema Unit, 14 Indian Kinema Section, C/o 505 Military District, 20 Sept 45 S.E.A.C. Now...

An Infantryman's memories Part Two - Enlisting in the Infantry - late 1944 - 'Rhine' Landings late March 1945 and onto the Elbe and Weser.

An Infantryman's memories Part Two - Enlisting in the Infantry - late 1944 - ‘Rhine’...

Army Cadet Force in Wartime

HOW I STARTED In 1942, after seeing my scout hall burnt down after being bombed, I decided to join the...

Diary of Hector Buckland, L/Cp, May-December 1944, Part 1

In the afternoon Lt. Morrison went home to Wallasey to say farewell to his people, and I spent a miserable...

At War With The Royal Engineers - 1945

On 21st March he went up in a spotter plane to look at the enemy-occupied Senio River... The method of...

Going to War on the Tube - Chapter 6 Mandalay to Rangoon

19 Division was left behind to tidy up whilst the rest of the Army dashed towards Rangoon. The capture of...